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Ellen Pedersen, ex-Project Manager TACIS, currently manager of the EU export promotion programmes to Japan:
"inno engaged with the European Commission in the process of modernising the naukograds (Scientific Cities) in the Russian Federation. The project team made all the difference in that process, and results emerged in each naukograd. A sound regional Innovation Strategy (the first of its kind in Russia) was approved and implementation started, commercialisation activities from scientific centres took place with concrete return on investments, and related benefits.
A successful project depends on people, ideas, and political will."
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Innovation is vital to SMEs and SMEs are vital to innovation
SMEs are the cornerstone of Europe’s competitive position and job creation capacity employing 66% of the European workforce and representing 55% of European turnover. Confronted with increased competition and growing demands from their clients, SMEs constantly need to innovate.
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In the overall innovation process, SMEs may be passive actors (recipients of technology transfer, technical watch…) or actual active actors (creating and developing innovation). inno provides SMEs with specialised services at each level of their innovation process:
Facilitation: provide SMEs with access to new technologies and innovation, technology watch. This offers an upfront technical audit and identification of the main features and sectors of the SME, of its natural clusters…etc.
Adaptation: provide the tools and the methodology for supporting and adjusting the SME’s assets through an innovation process, such as acquiring new technologies, adapting the company to target innovations, defining the ways to develop its Knowledge Acquisition functions to ensure SMEs play a key role on the innovation process.
Anticipation: identify the potential for innovation and encourage the SME to create value in its cluster, its region, its market. SMEs become the central active actors in innovation. inno helps to design European projects within the 6th Framework Programme through innovation instruments such as Networks of Excellence or Integrated Projects.
Inno’s expertise allows SMEs to integrate into the European innovation process and to cross the border from “acquiring knowledge” to “creating knowledge”.
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Evaluation of the national system of regional networks for the technology development (Réseau de Développement Technologique - RDT) in ... more
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The trans-regional project NBG (Next Business Generation) deals with company succession, one of the major challenges of the next 10 years. By exchanging information, know-how, competences and ... more
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Meta RITTS is a synthesis study on the effects and implications of the Swedish RITTS and RIS projects on regional innovation systems and innovation ... more
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The supporting actions addressed to single companies promoted by the Lower Austrian Authorities aim at improving and anchoring the competitiveness of the local companies. To achieve this target, the ... more
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